FLYING ANNE broke all records with a total of one hundred international film festival selections and screenings. A Dutch youth documentary never has been this successful.
FLYING ANNE has received a Special Mention at the KUKI Int'l Short Film Festival in Berlin. Laudory speech: "This film deserves a lot of respect, as the title figure talks so open-heartedly about everything, even though she finds it difficult. It is a documentary that isn’t boring for a second and radiates an intense lust for life. That is why we would like to give a Special Mention to FLYING ANNE by Catherine van Campen from the Netherlands."FLYING ANNE has won the first prize of the jury and the public award at the Curt.doc festival in Catalonia. This is the 17th international award for the short film of Catherine van Campen.
The Best Bosifest 2012 Screenplay Plaque was awarded to FLYING ANNE at the Bosifest 2012 filmfestival in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the 16h international prize for the film since its world premier at IDFA in 2011.
FLYING ANNE was awarded a Special Jury Mention for Excellence in Cinematography at Sebastopol International Documentary Film Festival. The jury described the film as "a very accomplished and lyrical film with some phenomenal photography and an intimate, compelling character study."
FLYING ANNE won the UPEC Price (University Paris Est Creteil) of the 34ème Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil.
FLYING ANNE won the prize for Best Short Documentary at Festival REGARD sur le court métrage au Saguenay in Canada. This weekend the film also won the 2nd Prize at the ImagéSanté Festival in Liège, Belgium.
FLYING ANNE is included in the 2012 Hot Doc's Docs For School program, in 2011 more than 320 schools and 60,000 students participated during the 10 days of the festival.
The film also will be featured in the Prix Jeunesse Int'l catalogue and presented in the Media Bar during the festival in Munich.
FLYING ANNE won awards for best short film at both RIDM in Canada and Festival dei Popoli in Florence, Italy. FLYING ANNE received an Honourable Mention at the Picture this... Int'l Film Festival in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
FLYING ANNE has won the Golden Olive award for Best Children's TV Programma at the Bar TV Fest in Montenegro. At the Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival the film won The Children’s Jury Second Prize for Documentary Film.This October FLYING ANNE won the Best Short award at DocuWest in Golden, CO, USA. Earlier this year the film won the Best of Festival award at the FOCUS Film Festival in Redding, CA, USA.In May FLYING ANNE won the prestigious award for Best Short Documentary at Hot Docs, the largest and most important documentary film festival in North America.
Jury Hot Docs: 'this is a film that impressed the jury because of its ability to bring viewers into the world of its young subject with great sensitivity and skill. Through bold camera work we're drawn into a visceral and moment-to-moment experience of emotions and struggles. It achieves a genuine sense of transcendence through its balance of verité elements and lyrical imagery.'
Just before that the film received the audience award for Best Short Film at Independent Film Festival Boston.
In April FLYING ANNE received the award for best short documentary at the prestigious documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. The film by Catherine van Campen also won the award for best film at Superfest International Disability Film Festival in Berkeley, USA.
FLYING ANNE was premiered on November 21st 2010 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
For more information: www.idfa.nl.
The documentary was broadcasted on February 1st 2011 on Dutch channel Nederland 3 by Dokument Junior.
The international premiere of FLYING ANNE took place at Visions du Réel 2011 in Nyon, Switzerland.
FLYING ANNE has been selected for:
Global Girls Festival | Chicago, VS |
IDFA | A'dam, the Netherlands |
Visions du Réel | Nyon, Switzerland |
International Film Festival Breda | Breda, the Netherlands |
Superfest International Disability Film Festival | Berkeley, USA |
ViewFinders | Halifax, Canada |
Sprockets TIFF | Toronto, Canada |
Hot Docs | Toronto, Canada |
DOXA | Vancouver, Canada |
Independent Film Festival Boston | Boston, USA |
Make Dox | Skopje, Macedonia |
International Health Film Festival | Kos, Greece |
Buster | Copenhagen, Denmark |
RIDM | Montreal, Canada |
Palm Spring Short Fest | Palm Springs, USA |
Pärnu | Pärnu, Estonia |
Deboshir | St Petersburg, Russia |
Lemesos | Lemesos, Cyprus |
Ciencia e Cinema | Galicie, Spain |
LUCAS | Frankfurt, Germany |
DMZ Korean International Film Festival | South Korea |
New Zealand Int'l Film Festival | New Zealand |
Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños | Mexico |
DocuWest | Colorado, USA |
DokuFest | Prizren, Kosovo |
Doxs! Duisburger Filmwoche | Duisburg, Germany |
Carrousel international du film de Rimouski | Rimouski, Canada |
Int'l Film Festival for Children Galicja | Krakow, Poland |
Film Festival Lussas | Lussas, France |
FOCUS Film Festival | Redding, CA, USA |
Doclisboa | Lisbon, Portugal |
Docudays | Beirut, Lebanon |
Free Zone | Belgrade, Serbia |
Hamptons Film Festival | New York, USA |
Ambulante | Mexico |
1001 Belgesel | Istanbul, Turkey |
Lightbox Presents: Supershorts | London, UK |
Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival | Chicago, USA |
Aesthetica Short Film Festival | York, UK |
Filmfestival Münster | Münster, Germany |
Vienna Human Rights Festival | Vienna, Austria |
Alcine | Madrid, Spain |
Rocky Mountains Women's Film Festival | Colorado Springs, USA |
EOP | Brussels, Belgium |
Int'l Children's Film Festival | Hyderabad, India |
Abilityfest 2011 | Chennai, India |
Red Rock Film Festival | Utah, USA |
Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival | Kassel, Germany |
One of Us | Sydney, Australia |
Pravo Ljudski | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Festival dei Popoli | Florence, Italy |
FICI | Madrid, Spain |
DOKKINO | Finland |
TV Festival Bar | Bar, Montenegro |
Plus Camerimage | Torun, Poland |
FrontDoc | Aosta, Italy |
Picture this... | Alberta, Canada |
REELkids | Peterborough, Canada |
Women's Film Festival | Brattleboro, USA |
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival | Sebastopol, USA |
Int'l Children's Film Festival Bangladesh | Bangladesh |
Reel 2 Real | Vancouver, Canada |
ZagrebDox | Croatia, Zagreb |
Dokfest | Munich, Germany |
Health Film Festival ImagéSanté | Liège, Belgium |
Mecal Int'l Short Film Festival | Barcelona, Spain |
Films des Femmes | Créteil, France |
Highlights of the Lowlands | Balkan |
Saguenay Int'l Short Film Festival | Quebec, Canada |
Curt.Doc | Girona, Spain |
Bosi Fest | Serbia |
APORDOC | Lisboa,Portugal |
VSA Texas | Austin, USA |
Cinema Arsenal | Berlin, Germany |
KUKI | Berlin, Germany |
Mecal | Santiago, Chile |
Breaking Down Barriers | Moscow, Russia |
ReelAbilities | NY, USA |
Olot.doc | Olot, Spain |
IDFA Showcase | Moscow, Russia |
One World | Armenia, Georgia, Mongolia |
Sprout | NY, USA |
DOKUart | Bjelovar, Croatia |
The Points of View | Waterville, USA |
Cinema le France | St Etienne, France |
KIKI | Tabor, Croatia |
Lunafest | San Francisco, USA |
Mumbai Int'l Film Festival | Mumbai, India |
Bobri | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Mecal Int'l Short Film Festival | Barcelona, Spain |
Planet+ Doc 2014 | Warszaw, Poland |
Human Rights Film Festival Disabled People 2014 | Korea |
ReelAbilities Festival 2014 | Cincinnati, VS |
DOCVILLE | Leuven, Belgium |
Addis International Film Festival | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
Awards:
Best Short Documentary | Visions du Réel |
Best Short Documentary | Hot Docs |
Best Documentary | Superfest Int'l Disability Film Festival |
Audience award for Best Short Film | IFFBoston |
Best of Festival | FOCUS Film Festival |
Best Short | DocuWest |
Best Children's TV Programme | TV Fest Bar |
The Children’s Jury Second Prize for Documentary Film | Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival |
Honourable Mention | Picture this... international film festival |
Best International Short Film | RIDM |
Best International Short Film | Festival dei Popoli |
Jury Prize of the Jury for Students | FrontDoc |
Best Short Documentary | Saguenay Int'l Short Film Festival |
2nd Prize Mental Health Session | Health Film Festival ImagéSanté |
UPEC Price | Films des Femmes |
Special Jury Mention for Excellence in Cinematography | Sebastopol |
Best screenplay plaque | Bosifest |
Jury Prize | Curt.doc |
Public award | Curt.doc |
Special Mention | KUKI |
Special Mention | Tabor Film Festival |
You can watch the trailer of the film here, on YouTube (HD) or Vimeo (HD).